HeyJaredTell Me Something Good About Retail
Conversations with retailers and their suppliers that shine a light on the most positive aspects of retail.
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Sometimes We Buy Proof (opens the original)
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In this deeply personal solo episode, Bob Phibbs tells the story of his mother’s old Kohler & Campbell piano-a possession worth perhaps $100 at an estate sale, but carrying a lifetime of meaning. Through memories of Depression-era thrift, S&H Green Stamps, his mother earning a master’s degree at night, childhood piano lessons, a damaged keyboard, and his own abandoned dream of conducting on Broadway, Bob arrives at a larger insight about value: things have prices, but people give them value. Tha
When Low Prices Backfire (opens the original)
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Retail futurist Doug Stephens is the founder of Retail Prophet and author of The Future of Competitive Advantage . The conversation explores a bigger question: what happens to business when the social systems it depends on begin to fail? Doug argues that democracy, capitalism, education, and retail performance are more tightly connected than most executives realize. He traces how decades of shareholder primacy, weakened antitrust enforcement, tax cuts, and underinvestment in public institutions
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